The Twitter account @SochiProblems has been a sensation in the lead-up and during these Winter Olympics, cracking jokes and retweeting the scenes and rhetoric of the inconveniences that Sochi has caused. So who’s behind the account? That would be 20-year-old Alex Broad, a journalism student at Centennial College in Canada, according to thestar.com. Broad created the account while sitting in class last Tuesday, he said, and he had no idea it’d take off like it did.
“I only expected it would hit maybe 15 to 30 followers, just kind of a joking account that might grab the attention of a few, not a few hundred thousand,” Broad told thestar.com.
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